Rainy Day Woods

even the fundraisers, even the protests, in the face of an active genocide where a million people are given LESS THAN TWO HOURS to escape to safety and then their convoys of ambulances and civilians are targeted!!!!!! its beyond words, its beyond horror to see this carried out by an official state entity that not only goes to the UN with the masquerade of civility but has the unconditional support of the first world. barbaric times, savages in suits and podiums filled with blood

its actually horrifying because gazans haven't had water, internet access, and people cannot even imagine the extent of this as a reality for SIX DAYS. they are people in an open air prison but they are PEOPLE, my friends from gaza are children's illustrators, journalists, writers, READERS, bookstore owners, vloggers, all of them right now are one and the same posting once a day to tell us "god help us." if they have a longer chance, they say "we don't want to leave gaza. we don't want a second nakba. pray for us. stop the war." if they have a longer time they post their wills and last words.

imagine the last moment of someone facing down the gun of a militant who broke into their home. imagine them hiding their children behind them, telling them not to worry. imagine the fear. imagine the terror. now imagine that moment suspended into six days, and the militant is not a militant but their prison warden who has already kept this person and their children trapped in their home for as long as they've been alive. they have never met him in person before. they've only met him when he's dropped bombs on their neighborhood. and now imagine every country and every government in the world supporting this. this is the reality gazans are facing. two million hostages so israel can keep functioning the way it always has, and now two million hostages facing genocide and ethnic cleansing.

Help me ob-gyn kenobi, you’re my only hope.

She needed more midwife-clorians. 

I really hope everyone reblogging this followed the link and read the article, because it’s larger point is really good “Reproductive health and childbirth is a crutch, and Lucas gets away with it because his audience accepts that these things are mysterious and cannot be intervened with the way that that the loss of limbs can be remedied with robot prosthetics, or the way Luke can be rescued from near-death on Hoth by being submerged in a bacta tank. Having babies is worse than being mauled by a wampa ice creature or being chopped up by lightsabers and falling into a river of lava. Lucas can write a world like that, and worse, the audience will accept it. But uteruses aren’t made of malignant magic. Women’s bodies are real physical things that can be studied and understood and when necessary, cured. ”

IDK about everyone else, but I’ve actually been certified as a doula and childbirth educator and worked in women’s health media for most of a decade.  All points valid, but “Help me OB-GYN Kenobi” broke me. 

And this is how you can tell a story was written by men because pre-natal healthcare never even occurred to the writer. Women’s insides are a mysterious and magical place that no man either can fathom, or just just not want to think about, so in stories like this they just handwave it away as” dying in childbirth”.

to be fair, it is a brilliantly executed pun

choking on water is the worst because how do you stop choking? drink something? well ive got some bad news for you

Lean your head forward, preferably to knee level, and let the water kind of drain out of your mouth. When your are able to, take deep slow breaths. No heimlich maneuver or physical assists from somebody else should be used beyond this, otherwise you could vomit and escalate the issue. Its about keeping the larynx open. Hopefully this helps.

Reblog to fucking save a life.